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THOMAS P. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,864, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed August 25, 1887. Serial No. 247,840. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. TAYLOR, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Bridge port, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new andnseful Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in corsets, and has for its object to provide a garment of this description which shall be particularly adapted to warm-weather wear, and which shall, as will hereinafter appear, be less oppressive and burdensome than the ordinary corset, while at the same time affording proper support to the wearer; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction presently to be set forth, and then recited in the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may more fully understand how to make the same, I will now describe the same in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved corset in adjusted position; Fig. 2, a transverse section through three of the vertical steels and longitudinal of the connecting-tapes; and Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. I, but showing a corset made without the textile frontand bust section.

Like parts are denoted by like referencenurnbers in all figures.

1 is the front section of the corset, and 2 is the bust-support at the top thereof. This portion of the corset I preferably make like an ordinary corset from coutille or similar fabric. a

The two front sections of the corsets are arranged to be secured by any ordinary clasps. 3 is the back section, containing the steelpocket provided with eyelets for lacing after the ordinary manner. The middle or under-arm section of the corset is constructed from a series of vertical steels,4, said steels being connected by cross-tapes 5,which are eyeleted, as at 6, to the steels, and also to the front and rear corset-sections. Each of thesteel'sI prefer to make from two independent strips of spring metal folded in fabric, leaving a space longitudinally central of the steel,in which the eyelets for securing the connecting-tapes may be set. (See Fig. 2.)

I am aware that it is not broadly new to construct corsets from steels banded together, as evidenced by the patent to Rutherford, Reissue No. 4,415, and I do not wish to be understood as laying claim to that constructi0n,since my invention more especially consists in the combination,with the usual front and back sect-ions, of the skeleton under-arm section, as shown and described.

In a corset thus made the wearer derives from the front and bust sections a support as full and complete as that afforded by a corset of ordinary construction, while at the same time the skeleton under-arm section both preserves the proper pressure upon the body-and allows con1- paratively free ventilation to both sides of the body.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a construction in which the cloth bust-section is dispensed with. The construction is otherwise similar to Fig. 1. The steels are of the double construction heretofore described, and the cross-tapes are secured to said steels by means of eyelets set between the two springs which form each steel.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a corset composed of the following elements: a pair of front sections, each provided with steel stays and clasps, said sections being narrowest toward their lower ends and widening at their top portions into bust-sections, adapted to afford support to the wearer, a pair of steelpocketed rear sections provided with ordinary lacing-eyelets, and a pair of skeleton underarm sections, the same comprising a series of vertical steels and a plurality of transverselyextended tapes, said tapes and steels eyeleted together at their intersections and the ends of the tapes secured,respectively,to the front and rear sections, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS P. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

S. H. HUBBARD, S. S. WILLIAMSON. 

